Steve Brodner is an illustrator, journalist, and filmmaker living in New York. A regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1993, he also makes films for the PBS newsmagazine Need to Know. He blogs at Brodnersbicycle.com.

Steve Brodner is an illustrator, journalist, and filmmaker living in New York. He blogs at Brodnersbicycle.com.

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This just in: Hosni (or “The Hoser” as his friends call him) has an offer to come to Washington and be an energy industry lobbyist. Happy ending after all. PS: Thanks Steve for grabbing this. So here’s a wonderful web-only mag, which likes pictures! More soon we hope.
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